THE SANCTUM
GENRE: Drama, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense
DISTRIBUTOR:Universal Pictures
DIRECTED BY: Alister Grierson
WRITTEN BY: Andrew Wight, John Garvin
CAST: Richard Roxburg (Frank MGuire)
Rhys Wakefield (Josh MGuire)
Ioan Gruffudd (Carl Hurley)
Alice Parkinson (Victoria)
Daniel Wyllie (Crazy George)
SYNOPSIS:
An intrepid team of explorers gets trapped in a complex underground cave system when a tropical storm makes it impossible to escape the same way they entered in this claustrophobic adventure. Inspired by actual events, Sanctum tells the tale of Frank McGuire (Richard Roxburgh), a master diver intent on being the first to explore the Esa-ala cave system in the South Pacific. Shortly after Frank descends into the caves with a team that includes his teenage son, Josh (Rhys Wakefield), and expedition bankroller Carl Hurley (Ioan Gruffudd), a massive storm collapses the entrance to the system, forcing the adventurers to plunge deeper into the darkness in search of an alternate exit. With supplies quickly dwindling and water levels rapidly rising, Frank and his team surmise that their best hope for survival is to follow an underground river thought to empty into the ocean. But given that few explorers have ever even dared set foot in the Esa-ala system, no one quite knows for sure whether they're racing toward freedom, or another dead end.
REVIEW:
A movie full of beat and full of questions which could make viewers feel anxious in every scene. Sanctum teach us about real life, how to make choices and decision when faced with a crucial moment, which sometimes we have to be someone who selfish in order to survive and how we have to give up something that we love. This movie also shows how passionate someone can be when it comes to the thing that drives the person passion and love.
In the real life, to gain we need to lose; it goes same with the movie. In order to discover about the underground cave they need to face death. At the end of the movie there lots of thing that can be summarize and learned, human something cannot be trust especially when it comes to survive for life. Plus, sometimes what we see is not what we understand. For example Josh always thought that his father Frank is a selfish man and don’t love him and see him as a kid but at the end he discover that his father is a very wonderful man even it is too late for him to realize.